More patents and more trademarks – The Brazilian PTO publishes its statistical data for 2019

As a possible outcome of the results already achieved by the PTO´s plan to fight the backlog, Brazil registered an increase in the number of trademarks and patent filings in 2019, when compared to 2018 statistics.

28,318 patents were filed in 2019, corresponding to a +2.8% in numbers from 2018.

On the trademark side, 19.9% more filings were detected, closing 2019 with 245,154 applications.

The PTO also granted 24% more patents and 7.3% more trademarks in 2019, compared to 2018 data.